Lima, Peru - Ambassadors for Peace in Peru held a conference in the Peruvian Congress on Dec. 4, 2010, about strategies to prevent family violence. Later in the month they distributed Christmas gifts to children in poor neighborhoods.

Lima, Peru - Approximately 200 people attended the Fourth Annual Conference of Peruvian Women on November 20, which emphasized the role of women as the main initiators of peace from their place in the home environment to the highest public positions in the nation.

Lima, Peru - The UN International Day of Peace was celebrated in one of the rooms of the National Congress of Peru, in coordination with UPF-Peru. Similar meetings took place in the provincial capitals of Trujillo and Puno.

Lima, Peru - Ambassadors for Peace in Peru gathered together on two occasions in August 2010 to discuss the proposal to establish an interreligious council at the UN and to consider ways to support this initiative.

Lima, Peru - An Ambassador for Peace raised funds and gathered supporters to help bring Christmas cheer on Dec. 23, 2009, to the children in the Bayovar Canto Grande district of San Juan de Lurigancho, one of the poorest areas of Lima.

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